@Matt: will check that one out, thanks @David: will do a search in the archives to see if I can find something there :) thanks!
as soon as my setup is done and working correctly, I'll post the results back here. On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 21:19, Matt Florell <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/21/09, David Backeberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Robin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thanks for your response. > > > The hardware I have now is not sufficient to set up a ramdisk (just 4 > gb)... > > > But memory is rather cheap nowadays. If i'd buf up the server with 8 > extra > > > gigs for use as a ramdrive, do you think that might be enough to > record > > > between 30-60 simultanious streams? Or should it be way more? > > > > > > I'm doing ramdisk recordings of about the same number of streams > > you're talking, in 4GB. > > I move out completed recordings once every 15 minutes or so via NFS, > > and as such, I never use very much of the ramdisk. There's no rule > > that says you have to use the whole 4GB of ram for recordings. I'm > > probably staying below 100MB or so. Strictly speaking, I'm using both > > ramdisk and external server, but the external server is just a > > centralized system with larger disks. > > > > However, I know that this arrangement isn't working for my load which > > is about to double again, so I'm upgrading to better hardware (and > > maintaining the status quo with my asterisk arrangement) > > > > If you read every single title of asterisk-users in the last few > > months, you'll find a similar discussion on this topic which went > > through the pros and cons of ramdisk versus centralized server. > > > > Somebody at that time mentioned particular names of programs that can > > do the centralized recordings by doing network hardware level > > replication and picking off the SIP packets. I've never done this, but > > if you find that mailing list thread you'll be able to find names of > > people who say they've done that. > > We have a few clients that use Oreka(from OrecX) that does > network-based SIP packet-capture recording. It works very well on > their multi-server setups and the core of Oreka is Open Source. > > MATT--- > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users >
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